Ok I have a mystery I need solved. Solving it may be important to helping all of us figure out how to drive more traffic into Japanese IDN domains.

I have a domain 原油価格.com "crude oil price" ovt 20,383 rather unremarkable compound domain. Well for the last 2 months it gets traffic, lots of it. About 152 views in the past 3 weeks, with a CTR of 13% and an ave ppc of 30 cents. Some interesting points:

1. All of the traffic is from Asia
2. Overture does not have stats for a search of 原油価格.com with extension
3. When inputting the term 原油価格 into yahoo or google, my domain does not make the first page or any subsequent page I have looked at so far.
4. Doubtful that it is type-in traffic, because if so, I have lots of domains who would almost certainly be displaying a similar rise in traffic.

So WHERE IS MY TRAFFIC COMING FROM? I'm begging you guys to help me figure this out.

Do you have a server you could point the traffic to? The server stats will tell you a littel more about where the traffic is coming from.

Google trends does show a little spike in searches mid 3rd quarter for the last two years. Maybe the summer driving season has people typing in this term.

Last month I had a spike in traffic for an Arabic domain - results.com. It seems Egypt holds elections this time of year and searches surge for election results. I got hundreds of views within about two months. A few days after these elections and the traffic went back to normal. Something similar could be happening with your domain.

Ok I have a mystery I need solved. Solving it may be important to helping all of us figure out how to drive more traffic into Japanese IDN domains.

I have a domain 原油価格.com "crude oil price" ovt 20,383 rather unremarkable compound domain. Well for the last 2 months it gets traffic, lots of it. About 152 views in the past 3 weeks, with a CTR of 13% and an ave ppc of 30 cents. Some interesting points:

1. All of the traffic is from Asia
2. Overture does not have stats for a search of 原油価格.com with extension
3. When inputting the term 原油価格 into yahoo or google, my domain does not make the first page or any subsequent page I have looked at so far.
4. Doubtful that it is type-in traffic, because if so, I have lots of domains who would almost certainly be displaying a similar rise in traffic.

So WHERE IS MY TRAFFIC COMING FROM? I'm begging you guys to help me figure this out.

Well, doesn't quite make sense - there's no ovt with ext. With about 200 type-in a month, you should have at least 10 or 20 ovt with ext. Or ovt with ext doesn't apply to japanese names? :p